Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
A digital cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. They come in different shapes and sizes, and we use a number of different ones on this Shopify powered store/website. Some are necessary to make the site work correctly, others are for measuring performance, advertising purposes, social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, region and/or language selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor which is helpful to us in finetuning your experience for the better. You can read more about how we use the data collected through these digital cookies in our Privacy Policy.
What cookies do we use and why?
As suggested, some of them are necessary to allow you to browse our website, use its features, and access secure areas (e.g. checkout cart or your account profile) In short: the use of some of these cookies is essential for the website to work. For example, we use user-input cookies for the duration of a session to keep track of what you fill out on a page or in forms that span several pages.
We also use functional cookies to remember choices you’ve made or information you’ve provided, such as your username, language setting, or the region you are in. This allows us to tailor your website experience specifically to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functional cookies that are used for the duration of a session (or persistent, if you agree to the “remember me” function) to allow users to authenticate themselves on subsequent visits or to gain access to authorized content across pages. The functional cookies we use include:
- User-centric security cookies to detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent duration, like repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific task of increasing the security of the Shopify platform in general and our store in particular.
- Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used for the duration of a session to store technical data needed to play back video or audio content (e.g. image quality, network link speed, and buffering parameters).
- Load balancing session cookies are used for the duration of the session to identify the same server in the pool in order for the load balancer to redirect requests appropriately.
- User interface customization persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.
Shopify as the underlying ecommerce platform is dedicated to optimizing user experience and uses lots of different tools to improve their platform. To this end, our website uses reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website and how often. The performance cookies we use include:
- First party analytics cookies - we use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our websites and our merchants’ websites, and to detect the most searched for words in search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to learn how our websites and our merchants’ websites are performing and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
- Third party analytics cookies - we also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page. For instructions on how to opt out of Google Analytics, see below.
Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to you and your interests and provide you with a more personalized service in the future. These cookies remember that you visited our website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites, they are not designed to personally identify you. Without these cookies, the advertisements that you see may be less relevant and interesting to you. Read more about how companies use cookies to conduct targeted or retargeted advertising here. We do not currently set advertising cookies here at BezBooze, and will update this policy should that change in the future to reflect it.
Finally, social media and content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example the Facebook ’like’ button), and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website (for example services that allow the playing of video files, or that create comments sections). These modules are integrated by default into the Shopify platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with this website although we currently make very limited to no use of it as of yet. Please note that some of these third party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioral advertising, analytics, and/or market research.
Last, about the cookies we use on our BezBooze shop
Here at BezBooze, as we are using Shopify, we place the following cookies for visitors.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | session |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | 1y |
| _shopify_essential_ | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. | 1y |
| _shopify_test | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. | 1min |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | 1y |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | 2w |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | 2w |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | session |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | session |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | 2w |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | 5min |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | 1y |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | 1y |
Reporting and Analytics
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | 2w |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | 2w |
| _shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | 1y |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | 30min |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1y |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | 1y |
Marketing
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | 1y |
User preferences
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| shopify_override_user_locale | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. | 1y |